There would be very little net increase in the overall city resident's water bill.

The problems with burning down vacant houses is that: 1. it throws a lot of pollution into the air, (the vaporized lead from paint is bad enough, but then you have the airborn chemicals from burning garbage, furniture, tires, plastics, foams, etc.) and 2. the remaining debris has to be treated as hazardous waste, and disposed of at higher cost. So, instead of just disposing of the asbestos containing materials at the higher cost, they have to assume that ALL of the remaining rubble is asbestos containing.

I haven't seen the neighborhood where 3215 Neosho Road is lately. But in 2011, this house and the one next door, seemed to make up 100% of the blight in the neighborhood. Looked pretty beautiful, otherwise. A neighborhood that nice doesn't usually fall completely apart in just 4 years. - See more at: http://www.vindy.com/news/2015/aug/18...

I haven't seen the neighborhood where 3215 Neosho Road is lately. But in 2011, this house and the one next door, seemed to make up 100% of the blight in the neighborhood. Looked pretty beautiful, otherwise. A neighborhood that nice doesn't usually fall completely apart in just 4 years.

I haven't seen the neighborhood where 3215 Neosho Road is lately. But in 2011, this house and the one next door, seemed to make up 100% of the blight in the neighborhood. Looked pretty beautiful, otherwise. A neighborhood that nice doesn't usually fall completely apart in just 4 years.

I'm not in favor of removing the dams, because once they're gone, I don't believe they'd ever be replaced. First, I believe the lakes are already designated wetlands, which makes touching them a no-no. (of course the OEPA is OK with draining them, because that makes them even more natural) Second, if there are no gov't funds to help fix the problem now, because they are just recreational lakes, I don't believe there would be gov't funds to re-create new recreational lakes, later.

And finally, just because this illustrates a misunderstanding of the problem: once the lakes are drained, there's nothing to "clean-up" or "flush out." Once dried, the sludge/mud at the bottom of the lakes simply becomes very fertile soil.